2009 is closing here in a few hours. Later for me than for most of the rest of you, I imagine.
2009 reminds me of that nursery rhyme that starts “There was a little girl who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead,” because when the year was good it was very very good, but when it was bad it was horrid.
I lost 50 lbs in 2009. Actually, if you really think about it, I lost 60 lbs in 2009 because I gained back some of the weight I lost in 2008. Apparently I’m rhyming tonight. Go with it. That is huge. So so so huge. I am crazy ridiculously amazingly proud of myself. I have wanted to lose weight ever since I was eight or nine years old and realized that I was bigger than everyone else.
This was my first year in my house. I’m still a little stunned that I have a house. Of my own. That when I touch a wall it is my wall. I have the word “gullible” written on my ceiling in permanent marker and nobody cares because it is my house and I can do little things like that to make myself laugh. And running water? Still the best thing in the world. I think everyone should live in a cabin in Alaska at least once, just so that eventually you will not live in a cabin and you appreciate modern life so much more.
I have made some really incredible friends this year. I’ve been going to the Unitarian Universalist church here in Fairbanks for about a year and the people there are amazing. I met J there – a new friend but a true one – he’s smart, fun and funny and we can talk on the phone for hours. But most of all J inspires me to be a better person. I’ve made other friends too this year and I’ve become closer to my old friends like Flickerbrain, Ecker and Shondar. (I may have called Ecker something else at some point on here but from this moment forth, he’s Ecker).
I faced my phobia of falling head on at the Deltana fair with Ecker and C.Y. Somehow I decided it was a good idea to go on the egg roll ride. It wasn’t a good idea, it was horrible and terrifying and I swear the operator let it go longer because he could hear how freaked out I was by my screaming. But I did it. Booyah!!!
There were bad things. I hurt my back in January and my foot in June. There was a horrible horrible family fracturing fight. I almost lost my job. And then there was this crazy horrible period in time from November 10 to December 10 where the following happened:
Childhood friend’s baby died. (I consider the uncle of the baby my brother)
The guy I really liked rejected me. And I didn’t even want anything from him.
My boiler died.
My boiler died again.
My car died.
My work computer died. It had my last email from my father on it.
We lost the case I’d been working on for three years. Okay that didn’t technically happen until the Monday after the horrid time, but it counts since most of the trial happened before December 10.
My back went out. Again.
My lovely wonderful cat Percy died suddenly.
Horrible month. But it’s over, my usual good luck is back and I’m letting it go so I can look forward to 2010.
This is my year.